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Chronicles Of The Black Company

13 books in reading order by Cook, Glen

  1. Port Of Shadows

    Book 1.5

    Port Of Shadows

    by Cook, Glen

    The Arctic became part of Canada in 1880 when it was transferred from Britain. How the transfer came about and what Canada did with its new territory is described. The...

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  2. Port Of Shadows

    Book 1.5

    Port Of Shadows

    by Cook, Glen

    Gideon Waverley, heir to the Duke of Townsend, had everything a young man could need a promising future, a title, charming good looks, great friends, and a family who adored...

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  3. Port Of Shadows

    Book 1.5

    Port Of Shadows

    by Cook, Glen

    Set between the first two books, Croaker narrates as the Black Company serves the Lady, and its status as her favourites draws the wrong sort of attention. A survivor of...

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  4. The White Rose

    Book 3

    The White Rose

    by Cook, Glen

    Six years after the events of Shadows Linger, the Black Company, having fled from the service of the Lady, lives in a warren of stinking caves beneath the Plain of...

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  5. The White Rose

    Book 3

    The White Rose

    by Cook, Glen

    The Selection meets The Handmaid’s Tale in the epic sequel to the New York Times bestselling author Amy Ewing’s The Jewel. Violet is on the run. She’s escaped the Duchess...

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  6. Shadow Games

    Book 5

    Shadow Games

    by Cook, Glen

    SOME GAMES ARE PLAYED FOR LIFE OR DEATH. Javul Charn is the most famous pop star in the galaxy—and the runaway bride of a violent lieutenant in Black Sun, the...

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  7. Bleak Seasons

    Book 7

    Bleak Seasons

    by Cook, Glen

    The Black Company is trapped in the siege of Dejagore, where atrocities are committed by both sides. The Company has split into two camps: Murgen, the standard-bearer and keeper of...

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  8. She Is The Darkness

    Book 8

    She Is The Darkness

    by Cook, Glen

    Croaker, Lady, Murgen the annalist, the sorcerer One-Eye, and their fellow mercenary warriors in the hire of the city of Taglia discover their situation is not what it seems.

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  9. Soldiers Live

    Book 10

    Soldiers Live

    by Cook, Glen

    The members of the Black Company are faced with a number of old enemies, while an evil spirit, a forvalaka, attacks them at a shadowgate, igniting a chain of repercussions...

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  10. Soldiers Live

    Book 10

    Soldiers Live

    by Cook, Glen

    Croaker has stepped down as dictator of Taglios and as Captain of the Black Company, and is back in his old job as Annalist. Sleepy is Captain, and no member...

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  11. A Pitiless Rain

    A Pitiless Rain

    by Cook, Glen

    The intensity and significance of the Battle of Williamsburg on May 4 and 5, 1862, are often underestimated and misunderstood. Previously understood only as a rear guard action on the...

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  12. Chronicles Of The Black Company

    Chronicles Of The Black Company

    by Cook, Glen

    Cook has real-life naval experience and this series benefits from that experience—realistic, gritty, amoral harsh, from battle sequences to characterizations.

    This was one of the first gritty fantasies to hit the shelves. To appreciate this work fully, imagine what it must have been like to encounter the kind of dark...

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  13. A Pitiless Rain

    A Pitiless Rain

    by Cook, Glen

    The fourth and final omnibus of novels from Cook's Black Company series, thiscollection includes "Water Sleeps" and "Soldiers Live."

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